ARCHITECTURE

El Croquis 206 - Studio Anne Haltrop

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop started his own practice in 2009 and completed his first two major
projects in 2015, Museum Fort Vechten in the Netherlands and the National Pavilion of the
Kingdom of Bahrain. In some of his works, form is explored through appropriations from natural
occurrences and random drawings, while others focus on the unique gestures dictated by a
particular material. This overview of his practice to date features nineteen projects spread among
the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Middle East, and Japan. Included are several projects
designed and built in Bahrain, where the studio maintains its second office, such as the shopping
district Qaysariyah Suq.

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OASE 107
nai010 publishers 2020 ISBN 9789462085787 Acqn 30681
Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £24.94

In recent decades, the drawing practices in landscape design and urbanism have seen a number
of transformations. Current developments in theory and practice have rendered the distinction
between the two more diffuse. Both disciplines are no longer regarded as architecture - or
gardening - 'on a larger scale', primarily anchored in questions of housing, land development, or
embellishment. Today ecology, energy transition or 'metabolic' issues are much more present,
which leads to new forms of drawing. For designers it is an essential question how all these flows
and processes come together, materialize, and become visible, and how their 'spatialization' in
drawings is represented in analysis and design.

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Building with Nature - Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-based Solutions

Over the past decade, EcoShape has collaboratively designed, realised, monitored, and
researched multiple projects that involve building with nature, not only in the Netherlands but also
across Europe and in South East Asia. These projects demonstrate the ability to build nature-
based solutions which create safe and sustainable flood protection as well as ecologically rich
and resilient environments that provide attractive places to live, work, and visit. Here a dialogue
with experts and stakeholders is presented on methodologies and experiences, illustrating key
concepts and linking them to a range of landscapes and their underlying ecological, economic,
and social systems.

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Arquitectura Viva 228 - Jose Sanchez, Material Atmospheres

Although Madrid is where he studied architecture and set up practice in 2006, Jose Maria
Sanchez has carried out much of his oeuvre in his native Extremadura. Benefiting from a special
knack for interpreting and giving form to contexts, his work shows great skill in adapting to
different scales and programs, from the private realm to the public sphere, always with a simple
but bold expressivity in handling materials. Buildings featured in this issue: two single-family
houses - one in an urban neighbourhood, the other in a natural spot - and two interventions on
historical premises: a medieval fortress and a neoclassical hospital.

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AV Monographs 227-228 - 24 World Houses

The Covid-19 pandemic has put the vital importance of domestic space on the forefront, and the
latest double issue of the magazine AV Monographs presents a selection of 24 residences - 12 in
Spain, 12 in other countries - designed by internationally prestigious architectural practices,
including those headed by Emilio Tunon, Harquitectes, OFFICE, Ryue Nishizawa, Aires Mateus,
Alejandro Aravena, and Smiljan Radic, with special emphasis on construction details, material
quality, and interior designs. A multipart essay by the editor, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, throws light
on the timeless character of eight spaces of the home.

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AV Proyectos 100 - Mad Architects

'AV Proyectos 100' devotes its dossier to MAD Architects, an international firm that, from its
offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Rome, or Jiaxing develops futuristic, organic, and dreamlike
projects based on a contemporary interpretation of the spirit of nature. The issue also publishes
the competition for the new headquarters of the MUPAC (Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology
of Cantabria) in Santander, with the winning proposal by Mendoza Partida and those of the other
four finalists.

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Volker Dohne - Moving Mies

Established in 2018, the exhibition series Collection Satellite invites artists from different fields to
engage with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld's collection and present works in an entirely new light. The
series launches with a project by Volker Dohne, developed specifically for the city's public space,
which reveals the artist's familiarity with architect Mies van der Rohe's Krefeld villas. Here he
examines the year-long restoration of the iconic Bauhaus residences. Not only do the
photographs follow the restoration process, they also highlight the architectural strategies of Van
der Rohe: flowing spaces, interweaving interior and exterior, and almost painterly and decorative
interplay between materials.

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